Ida B Wells of Memphis — Teacher and journalist, she was a fearless crusader against the atrocities of lynching and a passionate advocate of equal rights for all, whose work for human rights was praised by Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Forced to leave Memphis when a mob, outraged by her anti-lynching campaign, burned her offices, she eventually settled in Chicago, where she founded the Alpha Suffrage Club, the first of many such groups that brought black women into the suffrage movement.

Beale Street Historic District Tennessee, United States of America (Directions)